You can concoct odd situations in which, if you're really conserving everything we could plausibly mean by well-being and maximising it, then I would have to say that was good by my definition, But the worry is that some really important things are left out by that account.
Both men liked the comparison rather a lot, and sought to maximise it by making Churchill-like speeches, where they promised not to tire, nor falter, nor refuse to fight anyone, whether he was on a beach or not.
England has long prided itself on competitiveness in its top league, and claimed to maximise it by improving the standard and bringing in vast quantities of cash.
"For me, that is one of the central tragedies of development: not being open to the idea that in each of these there's good and bad and we've got to figure out what is good and work hard to maximise it," he said.
To maintain these rates of sequestration, the Calluna canopy should be managed to maximise it's time in the building phase.
The opportunity has opened up at a time when she feels ready to maximise it.
After explaining the curious way in which JIF is calculated and the technical limitations that beset it, we examine the approaches employed by journal editors to maximise it.
Perhaps he'll seek to minimise climate change by day, then, after a stiff dose of potion, come out at night to maximise it.
In a post-consumerist, beyond-growth world I suspect we will no longer be obsessed by "bigger" and "faster", and our definition of prosperity will be defined less by efficiency and more by sufficiency, by the quality of our lives and how to maximise it within the carrying capacity of the planet.
From the early 1990s onwards a sport previously managed by blazered worthies has turned itself over to administrators whose backgrounds are in business and marketing, whose instinct, on spotting a revenue stream, is always to maximise it (the England and Wales Cricket Board is currently headed by Giles Clark, brains behind Majestic Wine Warehouse).
